LFP TV rights: "I can not imagine that we go below €800m" (J-P Caillot, Stade de Reims)

"In a negotiation, the truth is the check. In 2018, the value of Ligue 1 was €1bn annually. We rose to €1.2bn (per season) thanks, or because of, Mediapro. Today, the context is complicated, but I can not imagine that we can go below €800m tomorrow," said Jean-Pierre Caillot, president of Stade de Reims (Ligue 1 Uber Eats), to Agence France Presse on 22/12/2020.

The Nanterre (Greater Paris) commercial court approved the conciliation protocol between the LFP and Mediapro Sport France, and by this settlement agreement, the League recovered, on 22/12/2020, the full enjoyment of the rights held by Mediapro (80% of both Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 games per matchday).

"It would be a mistake to sell our rights to Canal+ under cover of the emergency, and on the other hand it would not be a good thing for Canal+ to take them at too low a price, because that would mean that the product does not have the value at which they want to sell it to their subscribers. Perhaps Canal+ will give the price that we consider reasonable, perhaps it will not give it, and then it will be necessary to go through…